North Korea: We are ready for a U.S. Invasion!

Discussion in 'Politics' started by agrowguy, Feb 3, 2003.

  1. agrowguy

    agrowguy Excommunicated

    North Korea: Military Ready for Attack
    Mon Feb 3, 5:07 AM ET

    By JAE-SUK YOO, Associated Press Writer

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) said Monday its military and people are fully prepared to counter what it called U.S. plans to invade amid a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula.



    U.S. officials suspect the North may be moving closer to nuclear weapons development, and U.S. media said Washington was contemplating the dispatch of military reinforcements to the region as it prepares for a possible war against Iraq.


    U.S. officials have said they have no intention of invading North Korea.


    "Our military and people are in full combat readiness to cope with U.S. imperialist warmongers' indiscriminate military and political moves under their strategy to dominate the Korean Peninsula," the North's official Radio Pyongyang quoted a military official as saying.


    "With confidence that we will win, soldiers and people have entrusted their fate and future to (North Korean leader Kim Jong Il), and risen as one," the unidentified official said during a visit by Kim to a military base. The radio was monitored by South Korea (news - web sites)'s Yonhap news agency.


    North Korea's main communist party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, also urged the country's army reservists — estimated by South Korean officials at 1.8 million — to remain alert and unite around "the supreme commander," Kim Jong Il.


    North Korean men are conscripted at age 16 and serve in the country's regular 1.1 million-member armed forces for seven to 10 years.


    Kim has toured several bases in the past week, including some near the heavily fortified border with South Korea.


    North Korea accuses the United States of escalating the nuclear standoff as a pretext to invade the communist country. Washington denies it.


    The U.S. military says 2,900 soldiers in South Korea may be ordered to extend their stay by six months. The development comes amid a U.S. military buildup in the Gulf region.


    ABC News reported that Washington had decided to send another aircraft carrier to the region. CBS News also said the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific had asked for about 2,000 more troops, mostly Air Force personnel, to join the 37,000 U.S. troops already in South Korea.


    In Honolulu, Hawaii, Navy Cmdr. John Fleming declined to confirm or deny the report, saying it was military policy not to discuss future plans.


    On Friday, U.S. officials said spy satellites detected covered trucks apparently taking on cargo at the North's main nuclear facility, where spent nuclear fuel rods are stored.


    If reprocessed, enough plutonium could be extracted from the 8,000 rods to make four or five nuclear weapons, they said.


    Analysts were divided over whether North Korea was trying to reprocess the rods to make bombs or just bluffing to bring the United States to the negotiating table.


    The nuclear dispute began in October when U.S. officials said the North had admitted having a second nuclear program in violation of a 1994 agreement with Washington.


    Washington and its allies in December suspended oil shipments to North Korea promised under the 1994 deal.


    In return, Pyongyang has taken steps to restart its first nuclear program, which was suspected of being used to make atomic weapons. They also expelled U.N. monitors and pulled out of a global nuclear arms control treaty.

    Despite mounting international pressure, North Korea remains defiant.

    The United States wants to bring the issue before the U.N. Security Council, which could eventually impose economic or political sanctions on the impoverished North. Pyongyang has rejected the move.
     
  2. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    Can SOMEONE PLEASE CALM The Koreans....:biggrin:


    Remember, YOU ALL LIVE FOREVA, so please just relax and start drinking.
     
  3. agrowguy

    agrowguy Excommunicated

    Bust out great great gran daddies poppy puffer and toke till ya choke. go on now, toke it up!
     
  4. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    YOU TOO KOREA!!!:biggrin:
     
  5. agrowguy

    agrowguy Excommunicated

    For real, what is Shin Shong Yacks Problem anyhow?
     
  6. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    I know The Iraqi's are fucking happy this morning....:biggrin:
     
  7. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    For real, what is Shin Shong Yacks Problem anyhow?  


           Ain't MY problem!!!:biggrin:


    BUT EVEN HE SHALL LIVE FOREVA!!!!:biggrin:


    (Edited by GeminiGoddess at 7:40 am on Feb. 3, 2003)
     
  8. Seizure Dude

    Seizure Dude Harvested Fat Sticky Bud

    Excellent post Agrow...an eye opener.
     
  9. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    Give it up ya frickin GENIUSES!!!!!:biggrin:


    Grab your loved ones and get busy, Seize!!!!:alien:


    YOU KNOW WE LOVE YOU!!!!"WE" LOVE "US" ALL!!!!!!!
     
  10. agrowguy

    agrowguy Excommunicated

    sing song.
     
  11. GeminiGoddess

    GeminiGoddess A Fat Sticky Bud

    Then bring The gemini QUESTIONS WELLSTONE!!!!
     

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